Historical Sign Language Database
Georgetown University
April 19, 2024
Search: DESPISE
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| Entry ID | Book Source | Reference Gloss | Author’s gloss | Description | Page | URL | |
| 235 | Higgins (1923) | DESPISE | DESPISE | DESPISE: Both palms outward to one side, thumb tips holding middle tips, middles released and face averted. (Detest) (Contempt) (Scorn). | 44 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=235&refid=higgins1923 | |
| 107 | Long (1918) | DESPISE | DISLIKE | DISLIKE: Extend the hands up partly at one side, with middle finger held back by the thumb, the other fingers extended and pointing outward; suddenly shoot off the middle finger as in shooting a marble or the game of crokinole. This sign is more for "despise." "Dislike" is also made by sign for "like" followed by "not." IV,46. | 24 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=107&refid=long1918 | |
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